Monitoring of Small Group Homes
From 25 January to 10 February the Public Defender's Special Preventive Group, together with the Centre for Child's Rights, visited and monitored 10 small group homes.
During the monitoring, members o ...
Public Defender Holds Meeting with Renewed Special Preventive Group
On February 4, 2016, the Public Defender held a working meeting with members of the renewed Special Preventive Group. The meeting focused on the rights and duties defined by the Organic Law on Public ...
Training Held for Public Defender’s Renewed Special Preventive Group
Training was held in the technique of writing for the members of the Special Preventive Group within the framework of a joint programme of the European Union and the Council of Europe "Human rights in ...
Public Defender of Approves Renewed Composition of Special Preventive Group
On January 25, 2016, the Public Defender's Office approved a new composition of the Special Preventive Group. The approval was preceded by a public competition and interviews with the candidates for m ...
Information Bulletin of National Preventive Mechanism
The Public Defender has presented the third quarterly bulletin of the National Preventive Mechanism. The bulletin provides information about two important special reports, which was prepared and prese ...
Public Defender's Announces Competition of Members of Special Preventive Group
One of the most important obligations of the Public Defender within the goals of the National Preventive Mechanism is to effectively protect and monitor human rights in the penitentiary and other clos ...
NPM Special Report on Requests/Complaints Mechanism in Penitentiary System
On 19 November 2015 Public Defender Ucha Nanuashvili presented a special report of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) on the requests/complaints procedures in the penitentiary system.
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Monitoring of Deportation Process
An innovation - monitoring of joint return operations - was introduced in the work of the National Preventive Mechanism in 2014. It is important that the monitoring has become regular, as a result of ...
Monitoring Report of Penitentiary Facility N2
On 7 October 2015 the Public Defender published a report on the visit of a special preventive group to the penitentiary facility N2.
The visit revealed that the practice of visual surveillance, used f ...
State of Rights of Older Persons in Specialized Facilities
On 1 October 2015 Public Defender Ucha Nanuashvili held a presentation of a monitoring report of the Department of Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the Public Defender's Office and the National ...
Report on the Visit to Penitentiary Facility No 7
The Public Defender of Georgia has issued a report on the visit carried out by the Special Preventive Group to the penitentiary facility No 7. After detecting significant violations during the visit t ...
Recommendation on Supply of Stores of Penitentiary Institutions
The Public Defender of Georgia has addressed Minister of Corrections and Probation Kakha Kakhishvili with a recommendation on ensuring the prisoners’ right to use stores in penitentiary institut ...
